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3907. It was narrated from Abu 'Ubaidullāh Muslim bin Mishkam, that 'Awf bin Mālik narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "Dreams are of three types: Some are terrifying things from Satan, aimed at causing grief to the son of Ādam; some are things that a person is concerned with when he is
awake, so he sees them in his dreams; and some are a part of the forty-six parts of prophecy." He said: "I said to him: 'Did you hear this from the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ?' He said: 'Yes, I heard it from the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ, I heard it from the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ.'" (Sahih)
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The dreams that are shown by Allāh through His angels are always true, whether they are clear or need interpretation.
Satan, as he whispers evil to a person when he is awake, similarly he frightens him through bad and disturbing thoughts in dreams.
The actions a person carries out during his day, or wishes to do them but cannot do them, such thoughts come to his mind in the form of dreams while he is asleep. Such dreams do not need any interpretation.
The contemporary science of psychology discusses only the third type of dream, that the mind, concerned with and the desires. As they do not believe in angels and Satan, so they do not believe in the first and second types of dreams, while they are real, and the examples of their reality is commonly experienced.
